Welcome to my series, Incremental Poetry, where each week the featured poem will be one line longer than the one I share the week before. I have no idea how long I’ll keep this up, so we’ll just have to wait and see. Thank you for stopping by.

Scansion:Compound Word Verse
invented by Margaret R. Smith
consists of 5 tercets, for a total of 15 lines
Syllabic count for each stanza: 8-8-3
Rhyme scheme: aab ccb ddb eeb ffb, where b is a compound word related to a word in the title